Senior Accountant

City of Delano; Delano (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Delano seeks a senior accounting specialist to perform complex municipal accounting and auditing tasks. You will provide training to department staff and lead accounting and clerical personnel within the City’s Accounting section.

This position requires a bachelor's degree in accounting or related fields and offers independent judgment on diverse accounting projects with accountability for ongoing decisions affecting city accounting services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, public administration, or related field is required.
• Professional accounting work involves complex and specialized duties in municipal accounting procedures.
• Equivalent experience may be considered where allowed by policy.

Responsibilities

• Reviews accounting documents to ensure accuracy of information and calculations; makes correcting entries.
• Inputs all general ledger vouchers.
• Analyzes general ledger accounts for accuracy; creates new accounts or updates descriptions in City chart of accounts.
• Examines supporting documentation to ensure proper authorization and conformance with agreements, contracts, and regulations.
• Keeps subsidiary ledgers for various accounts.
• Prepares and maintains control and subsidiary accounting records for a variety of transactions.

Skills

Accounting

Auditing

Staff Training

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/BA/public administration or related field

Job description

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting, finance, business administration, public administration, or a related field.

Performs complex and specialized professional level accounting and auditing work in a number of areas relating to municipal accounting procedures and records. Provides training to department staff and lead direction to assigned Accounting and clerical staff. This classification provides the professional level support to the City's Accounting section. It is the senior operational professional accounting specialist. The position exercises a high degree of independent judgment on diverse and specialized accounting projects and has significant accountability for ongoing decision making associated with his/her work. This class is distinguished from the Assistant Finance Director by the lack of department/division-wide supervisory responsibilities and department/division work planning. The classification is further distinguished by the requirement to bring to the Assistant Finance Director prospective changes in methods and innovations in procedures, as well as prospective policy changes; that will improve the delivery of accounting services to the City.

Disclaimer- This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. Some incumbents may not perform all the duties listed. In other cases related duties may also be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reviews accounting documents to ensure accuracy of information and calculations and makes correcting entries.
• Inputs all general ledger vouchers.
• Analyzes various general ledger accounts for accuracy, creates new account numbers or makes changes in account descriptions on City chart of accounts.
• Examines supporting documentation to establish proper authorization and conformance with agreements, contracts, and state and federal regulations.
• Keeps subsidiary ledgers for various accounts.
• Prepares and maintains control and subsidiary accounting records involving a variety of transactions and accounts.